Gordon Hayward

#1
Hayward looked pretty nice last night. I think he’s going to be perfectly fine next year. He’s not going to be catching lobs again, but he’ll be back to his borderline All-Star production on the right team. I do not think Boston would be the right team. So, two assumptions, we strike out on the premium 3/4 free agents and Boston makes the decision to re-tool the roster around Tatum and find Hayward a nice new home so they don’t get slammed by media/agents. The proposed trade would be, mostly just taking Hayward into space...at most we flip them Bogi. Thoughts? And just to reiterate, Boston does this because if Hayward does struggle for them again early next year then things get really, really ugly with their fanbase and they’ll be forced to move Hayward. This is risk mitigation for them more than anything. Pick up a nice player like Bogi, and maybe some change, now while they can. And again, they can’t just offload Hayward to the highest bidder because they will get torched and never sign another free agent so long as Danny is there.

Starting and crunch time 5 would be:

Fox
Buddy
Barnes
Hayward
Bagley

That’s a lot of smart defenders/ball movers who can shoot, creating a ton of space for Bagley and Fox to operate. Might be a little small against some teams, and probably still not quite as chippy as I would like, but would be just a really sharp cohesive unit. Obviously, Barnes/Hayward would leave an imbalanced cap for the next two years, but they come off or get extended prior to Bagley/Fox getting maxed.
 
#2
The lengths people go to here to disrespect Willie are really out-of-this-world....

the nature of the the threat we're up against..... Are we going to the schoolyard to beat up on some chumps, or are we trying to beat the Warriors??? which is it?


You honestly think we can beat the forces we need to beat with what's basically a gimmick lineup??? Have you ever seen Hayward play vs Kevin Durant? He's just as helpless as all the guys that make 1 million and 5 million and 10 million, paying him 30 million gets us nowhere vs the warriors....

do you understand how big haywards contract is? this is lunacy.
 
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#3
The lengths people go to here to disrespect Willie are really out-of-this-world....

the nature of the the threat we're up against..... Are we going to the schoolyard to beat up on some chumps, or are we trying to beat the Warriors??? which is it?


You honestly think we can beat the forces we need to beat with what's basically a gimmick lineup??? Have you ever seen Hayward play vs Kevin Durant? He's just as helpless as all the guys that make 1 million and 5 million and 10 million, paying him 30 million gets us nowhere vs the warriors....

do you understand how big haywards contract is? this is lunacy.
The OP literally didn't mention Cauley-Stein. Sometimes people see, what they want to see...

To your other point, why can't Barnes guard Durant? Why does it need to be Hayward?
 
#4
This is a very similar direction to a post i made awhile ago, but it was about acquiring Porter & Hayward. Instead it would be Barnes & Hayward.

I agree the first choice would be to look at free agency. This would be a secondary backup plan in case we can't sign anyone good (not saying Boston agrees to it). Barnes' deal expires in time for Hield's new contract and Hayward's expires in time for Fox's new contract.
 
#6
The lengths people go to here to disrespect Willie are really out-of-this-world....

the nature of the the threat we're up against..... Are we going to the schoolyard to beat up on some chumps, or are we trying to beat the Warriors??? which is it?


You honestly think we can beat the forces we need to beat with what's basically a gimmick lineup??? Have you ever seen Hayward play vs Kevin Durant? He's just as helpless as all the guys that make 1 million and 5 million and 10 million, paying him 30 million gets us nowhere vs the warriors....

do you understand how big haywards contract is? this is lunacy.
He’s just not a solution at center and won’t be here next year